Did you know it snowed?

 Snow joke. I know it’s April Fools day but did you know? IT SNOWED.

Surely you did.

You stopped everything you were doing, ran to the window, pressed your nose against it, pushing everyone else out the way and. shouted, “Ooh, snow!”

Primary school teachers will think that this is unique to their class, who have suddenly become loud, excitable and unreachable, but they are wrong. This happened to adults too. Normally, sober, well behaved grown ups, who would normally hold their tongue on matters of weather, did the same. Those stuck in their bedrooms, still working remotely because their company decided to save on office space rent, had no one to hide their excitement from and people in the office are just giddy with excitement anyway, they’ve forgotten how to behave in front of people. Even the Long Suffering Husband, who is retired, with no golf games to play and instruction to get to make friends with the baby shark we have invited into our home, sent a video. People took to social media in droves to give their weather report and newsreaders were sent outside in the shorts and T-shirt they wore the day before, when the temperature reached 20 degrees, just to prove that we were right to shout,  ‘IT’S SNOWING’.

Now that it’s still really cold we will spend the day mourning that weekend of beautiful weather that we had forgotten was possible in England. We might tell stories of the Easter we remember it snowing or one that has been passed down in folklore. 

Our family April snow story is the 4th of April 1964. My parent’s wedding day and the photos show my grandma looking like a bear in a huge fur coat and my cousin in wellies and a balaclava.